Posted on 07/06/2007 7:24:11 PM PDT by kellynla
Actually, what you cited is different from what is being reported for Colorado. IANAL, but I think it's obvious that defining an unborn child as a "person" (Colorado) is different from saying they are alive (Missouri).
For example, persons must be have their facial photos taken prior to entrance into certain restricted facilities. This definition would require ultrasounds for pregnant women at security stations, I suppose. (Perhaps a silly example, but it's Saturday morning ante-java. :-)
A more serious problem would be turning loose pregnant criminals, since a "person" cannot be incarcerated when he didn't commit any crime! (I'm assuming, of course, that nobody wants the unborn children torn from the womb, just to lock up the perpetrating mother...)
When the Left tries these types of shenanigans, conservatives rightly point out they are back-door evasions. I wish focus would go into winning hearts and minds and supporting our democratic republic, to encourage The People to change the Constitution.
“an unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.”
An unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.
An unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.
An unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.
More than 34 years!
Heck, even with the current induced-abortion rate in this country, God is racking up abortions at a much higher rate than human abortionists! Why is God such a wastrel, if he imbues each of zygote with a soul? What's the point of preventing a blastocyst from emplanting, or shedding it off without the mother even knowing about it?
Yes, God lets bad things happen to people, but it doesn't seem to make much sense for God to be killing off so many babies that their mothers don't even know exist! I wonder what happens to all those souls who never got to develop a body beyond a few cells...is the afterlife conciousness tied to our earthly neurological condition? If not, what is the essence of each of us--when our sense of self is so tied into our cognition...? Ah, the "Phineas-Gage puzzles" still are out there!
Truly, a belief in human life beginning at conception can lead to a lot of nightmares!
A right to life amendment to the US Constitution is a necessity.
Agreed. That's the way to go about it...not try some end run on things and screw up our already bloated legal code!
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
You certainly made your case. If only in your own mind. LOL
My guess is, you enjoy playing a cynic, or even worse, a misanthropist. Whatever. Its America, its a free country. Carry on.
It was an attempt to point out the church doesn’t/shouldn’t “change with the times”.Public morality goes through swings .
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